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etbadaboum @etbadaboum.bsky.social · Dec 10
Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Rennes. But many other cities,.mall and large, have such plans for the near future. Just look at a city of your choice on Google and add « Plan Vélo ». Here is for example the case for Perpignan which I had no idea before doing the search.
Cycling network plan in 2030 for Perpignan, France
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alonlevy.bsky.social
This would be true if there were no international connections - Czechia is a small country. But there are, to Berlin, to Bratislava, maybe to Munich, to Vienna and thence Budapest, to Katowice and thence Warsaw. So 300 km/h is more justified in this case, on the same basis as Paris-Brussels.
lukebro92.bsky.social Luke Horn @lukebro92.bsky.social · 2h
@alonlevy.bsky.social the "Adam Something" YouTuber was recently a guest on @theurbanistagenda.com and was skeptical about high speed rail, saying among other things that for a country like the Czech Republic 250 km/h lines where trains usually go 200 km/h make more sense
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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asso-usagers-idf.bsky.social
🗓️ Principaux travaux entraînant des fermetures sur le réseau métro jusqu'à l'été 2026 : les lignes 4, 8, 12 et 13 sont concernées (3bis et 7bis aussi)
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social
For those of you following of the tragedy at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong yesterday/today. Firstly my condolences to all the victims. Secondly a lot of Western media is blaming the bamboo scaffolding for spreading the fire when it is actually the flammable substandard netting....
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
etbadaboum.bsky.social
‘The standoff over the B.Q.E. has become, more broadly, a symbol of the power that local communities wield over critical infrastructure projects around the nation.’
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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yonahfreemark.com
What happens when you downzone?

Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.

Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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chittimarco.bsky.social
One must admire the capacity of the anglosphere to set the tone and the priority in urban research.

If you search for low-traffic neighborhoods, you find 100s of articles on the most disparate related topics.

If you search ZTL or limited traffic areas or zones: 🥱
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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ohtheurbanity.bsky.social
The Best Cycling City No One Talks About

with (among many others) @burgundavia.bsky.social and @ryanjabs.bsky.social
The Best Cycling City No One Talks About
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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brunobernard.bsky.social
🌳Le premier tronçon de l'avenue des Frères Lumière voit arriver ses premières plantations et son nouveau dallage.

Une rue plus belle, plus piétonne, plus adaptée aux chaleurs estivales.

Après les travaux, le vrai confort !
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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sytralmobilites.bsky.social
Dans son rapport de juin 2025, la Chambre régionale des comptes souligne un taux de couverture des dépenses d’exploitation par les recettes billettiques de plus de 50%

👉 Un taux particulièrement élevé par rapport aux autres réseaux français
Le ratio en recettes / dépenses retrouve en 2024, un niveau bien supérieur à 50 % même s’il n’a pas retrouvé son niveau de 2019. Un tel ratio est particulièrement bon dans le paysage des réseaux français
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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sytralmobilites.bsky.social
Comment sont financés les transports en commun lyonnais ? 🤔

Avant le débat d’orientations budgétaires, ce jeudi au Conseil d’administration de SYTRAL Mobilités, on fait le point et on sort nos graphiques 🧵⤵️
a man is holding a picture of a graph with the words look at this graph below it
Alt: a man is holding a picture of a graph with the words look at this graph below it
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
Fanttik, the ubiquitous gadget brand, started as a reset after parent company Aukey was banned from Amazon for review fraud. It’s since built its business to astonishing heights by paying over 31,000 TikTokers to hype screwdrivers. Wild stuff in our story: www.theverge.com/report/82926...
Fanttik — a play on “fantastic,” not “fanatic” — had help getting started, too. By 2021, its parent company, Aukey, seemed poised to become the next Anker — the first Chinese electronics company to become a big brand in America by starting with high-quality phone chargers. But that summer, Aukey was among the 600 Chinese brands Amazon permanently banned for review fraud. Some of those companies were caught bribing customers to leave positive reviews on Amazon or to delete negative ones. The ban cost Aukey hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, and all its profit for the year — it recorded a net loss of $90 million in 2021, according to public records. But it didn’t have much trouble bouncing back, because the flagship Aukey brand was just one of Aukey’s nearly 300 brand names. Following “the Amazon Incident,” as the company calls it, Aukey renamed itself to AuGroup, refocused on furniture, and publicly said it wouldn’t put more resources behind banned brands. But what about the 5 percent of its business dedicated to power tools? It consolidated those under a subsidiary with a new brand-first strategy: Fanttik. Before the incident, Fanttik primarily distributed other companies’ tools. But in 2021, the company’s CEO, Bo Du, rebooted the entire division, downsizing its staff to around 150 people and building product and brand development teams, he told an audience at the FastMoss Global Short Video Conference in January. Four years later, Fanttik tells The Verge it has sold approximately 5.5 million pieces of gear. One of the open secrets to Fanttik’s success is paying for reach. It spends millions to sponsor NASCAR drivers, UFC fighters, and NBA teams to build its brand — and it’s attracted a veritable army of over 31,000 TikTok creators competing to make its next screwdriver look like the coolest thing ever. This January, Fanttik CEO Bo Du revealed that 30 percent of the company’s sales come from TikTok alone. In just two years, it sold $25 million in tools that way. As of today, that number may be as high as $40 million, analytics company FastMoss estimates. The overwhelming majority of those sales and views come from creators, not Fanttik’s own channel. In one particularly successful video, a bearded man rushes the camera wide-eyed — “Ladies, mothers, wives: stop!” — before telling them to buy a Fanttik screwdriver for their husband’s or father’s next Christmas present. The video got 21 million views and sold 13,000 screwdrivers, according to FastMoss estimates. (The caption does not indicate that it’s a paid ad.)
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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ohtheurbanity.bsky.social
Montreal’s busiest bike route is facing a disruptive multi-year construction detour.

A temporary alternative is now being built, chosen because of hills and connections.

Many businesses are complaining (“we weren’t consulted!”) and the new bike-skeptical administration is promising to re-evaluate.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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chittimarco.bsky.social
The fact that Italy, of all countries, has figured out how to properly do transit, directional, bike and pedestrian traffic light decades before Ontario would not not be funny to me.

The new road code was written in 1991 (and transit signals and directional lights existed even before...)
2. The lights of standard vehicle traffic lights are circular in shape and have the following colors: - red, meaning stop; - yellow, meaning advance warning of stop; - green, meaning all clear. 3. The lights of the lane traffic lights are in the shape of a colored arrow on a black background; the colors are red, yellow, and green; their meaning is identical to that of the lights referred to in paragraph 2, but limited to vehicles that must proceed in the direction indicated by the arrow. 4. The traffic lights for public transport vehicles are in the form of a white bar on a black background, horizontal to indicate stop, vertical or inclined to the right or left to indicate green light, straight ahead, right or left respectively, and a yellow triangle on a black background, to indicate a warning to stop. lights))The pedestrian traffic lights are shaped like a colored pedestrian on a black background. The colors are: a) red, meaning stop and does not allow pedestrians to cross or enter the carriageway; b) yellow, meaning clear the pedestrian crossing and allows pedestrians inside the crossing to clear it as quickly as possible and prohibits those on the sidewalk from entering the carriageway; c) green, meaning clear passage, allows pedestrians to cross the road only in the direction permitted by the green light. 6. The lights of traffic lights for bicycles are in the shape of a colored bicycle on a black background; the colors are red, yellow, and green; their meaning is identical to that of the lights referred to in paragraph 2, but limited to bicycles approaching from a cycle path.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social
What is wild is you can just find detailed plans for metro projects in early works posted to the public online or physically at construction sites in China. Like for Guangzhou Metro Line 24 below in order: Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Huangshi and Xiamao Stations....
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
Record labels somewhat famously have never been in the morality business and somewhat more famously have always been in the “squeezing artists for profit until they burn out and die” business
caseynewton.bsky.social Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 1d
Record labels had the chance to stand up for copyright against AI scrapers — but now they're folding www.platformer.news/suno-warner-...
The move toward settlements and licensing agreements, distasteful as it no doubt seems to many artists, represents a safer path. And so long as artists can opt out of their work being included, the most obvious direct harm to individuals can be avoided. Still, you can probably imagine what lesson the tech industry will take from this development. Just as Google learned with books, or YouTube did with Viacom, it rarely pays to ask for permission — and forgiveness often comes more cheaply than you would guess.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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chittimarco.bsky.social
"He did not give a date for when the ARTM believes it can resolve the issue."

I think I found the sentence that perfectly encapsulates the ethos of public services in Canada.

montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
REM users can't buy monthly transit passes at North Shore stations
"You can buy tickets at the station, but our Opus cards don't work," one commuter said.
montrealgazette.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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taras-grescoe.com
This is a city on Robo-Taxis. (Don't let it happen to yours.)
aniccia.bsky.social John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 2d
Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
Seeking to kneecap states and hand even more power over to his big tech cronies, the ever power thirsty and David Sacks gets ratioed. For now at least — this group is like mold and always returns www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face
A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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damienmoule.bsky.social
The estimated budget for the Waterfront East "LRT" (streetcar with tiny tunnelled section) is $2 billion?!?! Subway prices for 4km of streetcar. Glad we'll spend next year's municipal election talking about a made up crime surge.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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davidzipper.bsky.social
I'm bracing for Republicans to cite Abundance as a reason to gut car safety rules.
lloydalter.bsky.social Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 1d
Why am I not surprised. “Senate Republicans in January plan to criticize requirements for safety technology, arguing they are ineffective and will unnecessarily drive up the cost of cars, according to people familiar with the situation.” Pedestrian lives, on the other hand, are cheap
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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emmanuelspv.bsky.social
A symbol in Paris : an old "sidewalk bike lane" dating back more than 25 years has just been erased (replaced by a shared bus lane), and its former entrance is now blocked by a barrier with a longtail family bike, a use that no one could have imagined would take off so much even just 10 years ago.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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emmanuelspv.bsky.social
Before (2017) / After (2025) the greening of Rue Pierre Haret in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Maybe the first street to be changed back in 2019 for the kind of greening Paris does today, ie. with only open soil planting.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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emmanuelspv.bsky.social
Avant / Après Rue du Docteur Landouzy, dans le 13ᵉ, avec l'IPhone 8 en mode panoramique. Ça permet de voir les arbres en entier dans le cadre allongé d'un avant/après, mais la différence d’optique avec Street View paraît plus marquée qu’avec un cadre plus serré, ça fausse plus la perception de près.
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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emmanuelspv.bsky.social
Avant / Après l'agrandissement du trottoir sous le métro aérien près de Place de Stalingrad, dans le 19ème arrondissement de Paris. Et aussi, il y a une piste cyclable à la place de la voie générale d'avant, bref quand les voitures ne passent plus, on récupère de la place pour tout les autres ;)
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM